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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 05:46:03 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: too much confusion over kernel building
Message-ID:  <20010118054603.A42449@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A66C40A.AA7045CA@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:23:06AM -0800
References:  <20010118091839.7C8D13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; <20010118042437.A41992@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200101180927.WAA14914@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> <20010118045440.A42092@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <3A66C40A.AA7045CA@urx.com>

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:23:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> The way I'm reading mods MFC'ed to Makefile.inc1 by jkh on 1 Dec 2000,
> you can replace both of them with just
> 
> make kernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL
> 
> If you add KERNEL=MYKERNEL to your make.conf, it can simplify it to
> just "make kernel". I created a script to do the full blown way
> because I stood to high odds of flipping a letter in the middle and
> haven't tried "make kernel" to see if it works.

Ok, so substitute "3 more steps" for "2 more steps" :)  In all
seriousness, I can appreciate that simpler is better.  Your point
is well taken :)  I don't think it makes a heck of a lot of
difference, but I understand where you're coming from :)


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